Moon took a lot of sci-fi movie cliches and turned them on their ear. without spoiling much; the robot is not the enemy, it’s not all an obtuse dream or hallucination to wrap your brain around and there aren’t any “thriller” or violent type scenes with monsters or bad guys to get your blood roiling or distract your short attention span. the whole thing sort of looks in at itself and wonders with you.
the movie is shot well, minus the credits plastered onto the first 2-3 minutes in myriad ways. it’s like the director’s best friend is a middling typography student and he just let’m have at it. regardless, the scenes involving the lunar surface were so intense to me. I can’t tell if the loneliness and beauty were exaggerated, but I don’t really want to know… kind of like how I don’t want to give up on the endless rain forests hidden beneath Venus’ noxious cloud cover. it was all very surreal and romantic.